There are 22 Regions (categories) and 96 Departments (posts) in France….many have rivers holding brown trout! A new 'challenge'!

Category: AQUITAINE

For how many years have DF and I have ventured abroad for our annual adventure? I am betting it is about eighteen, and it has taken in Scotland and Ireland (sic), but also Iceland, Canada, the US, and more recently, Slovenia with Rob Pickering aka M.Le Pique! And it was Rob’s enthusiasm for a rematch which led to his suggesting we came to his (summer) … Continue reading PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUE

Or…Fishing is not always about catching fish ! I have visited La France countless times, and my earliest recollection was as a pubescent schoolboy, for whom a visit to Les Chateaux de la Loire, as a twelve year old, was considered to be of cultural importance to not only mine, but all the parents of those for whom, an education at Homefield Prep in Sutton, … Continue reading Dordogne